{"id":1173762,"date":"2021-12-30T21:19:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T02:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173762"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T02:19:37","slug":"thousands-of-nyc-first-responders-out-with-coronavirus-like-symptoms-despite-mayors-coercive-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-nyc-first-responders-out-with-coronavirus-like-symptoms-despite-mayors-coercive-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of NYC First Responders Out with Coronavirus-Like Symptoms Despite Mayor&#039;s Coercive Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthousands-of-nyc-first-responders-out-with-coronavirus-like-symptoms-despite-mayors-coercive-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Thousands of first responders are out with coronavirus-like symptoms \u2014 1,500 New York Police Department (NYPD) employees have recently tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus alone \u2014 despite Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s (D) coercive vaccine mandates, forcing first responders to get the jab.<\/p>\n<p>This week, \u201cthousands\u201d of New York City\u2019s first responders have called out sick. On Tuesday alone, 6,600 NYPD employees <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/coronavirus\/thousands-of-nypd-fdny-members-out-sick-as-covid-cases-soar\/\">called<\/a> out sick, which comprises \u201cabout 20% of the department\u2019s workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to Pix 11, \u201cOf those, 3,000 were officers with flu-like symptoms and about 1,500 were positive for COVID\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a result, the NYPD sent out a memo telling all uniformed officers who are regularly off on Friday and Saturday that they must report to their respective commands for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made to provide adequate police coverage for the New Year\u2019s Eve celebration in Times Square as well as badly needed coverage in precincts throughout the city, according to the NYPD memo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The trend is hitting the&nbsp;New York City Fire Department (FDNY) as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of Wednesday, 30% of EMS workers and 17% of firefighters were on medical leave,\u201d Pix 11 reported.<\/p>\n<p>This comes despite Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s (D) vaccine mandates, one of which requires first responders in the city to get the jab. In October, the Democrat mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/27\/mayor-bill-de-blasio-admits-no-real-plan-address-potential-first-responder-shortages-vaccine-mandate\/\">admitted<\/a> the city had no real plan to address potential shortages due to his mandate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17640458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bill-de-blasio-finger-wag-nyc-aug16-21-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17640458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bill-de-blasio-finger-wag-nyc-aug16-21-getty.jpg\" alt=\"New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThese are very agile organizations used to dealing with crisis. Used to dealing with natural disasters. They know plenty about how to make the right moves to keep everything going,\u201d he said at the time, essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/27\/mayor-bill-de-blasio-admits-no-real-plan-address-potential-first-responder-shortages-vaccine-mandate\/\">admitting<\/a> there was no plan.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the day after Christmas, New York City <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/nyc-comprised-29-of-recent-coronavirus-cases-the-day-after-christmas\/\">comprised<\/a> 29 percent of new cases of the virus in the country, despite the mayor\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/bill-de-blasios-ultimatum-parents-get-your-child-vaccinated-or-cannot-go-indoor-restaurants\/\">implementation<\/a>&nbsp;of some of the most stringent vaccine mandates in the country, even extending to 5-11-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>At least 88 percent of NYPD workers are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/28\/over-6000-nypd-cops-out-sick-many-with-covid-or-flu-like-symptoms-sources\/\">considered<\/a> fully vaccinated, according to&nbsp;the <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of first responders are out with coronavirus-like symptoms \u2014 1,500 New York Police Department (NYPD) employees have recently tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus alone \u2014 despite Mayor Bill &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}